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Ch50 from Winter Hill
Hmm...downloaded the latest firmware to my Toppy last night and, whilst rescanning the channels, came across channel 50. This was showing 99% for both signal strength and quality, yet there was no channels being detected.
Any ideas what this frequency is being used for? AFAIK, it isn't one the the normal Winter Hill mux channels.
Any ideas what this frequency is being used for? AFAIK, it isn't one the the normal Winter Hill mux channels.
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I can't find any nearby transmitters using that channel.
DTT Multiplex C is broadcast on CH.50 from Emley Moor. My uncle used to pick a grainy Emley moor analogue up from his house on high ground, near St. Helens.
Unlikely you'd ever get a 99% DTT signal from that Tx, in the Northwest region though, so maybe CH.50 is testing from Winter Hill? I might have a look on my Box this evening, see if I can find anything on Ch. 50.
Wonder if its anything to do with the recent work at Winter Hill.
Does this person mean UHF 50 or does he mean like channel 5 as in 1 is bbc1 etc etc?
I think they may mean if you type channel 50 on your remote you get thes test channel not uhf 50 which is obviously something completely different!
The LCN is 506, channel name is "Service e040". Provider is unknown.
Technical details:-
Frequency:- 705997 KHz
TxMode:- 2K
Guard Interval 1/32
Modulation:- QAM16
FEC:- 1/2
It's now appearing as "Test Channel 6" on the OSD.
Also can see "Test Channel NGW" on the screen, when I try to get the technical details.
I wonder if Imax finally sorted their compression technique out ...would be great if they finaly got it to work on all boxs ...
:cool:
The TDT in the transport stream shows 2006/04/18 12:02:08 at the earliest.
When the time reaches 2006/04/18 12:10:32 it jumps back to 2006/04/18 12:02:08
Here is an info dump from TSReaderLite
******************************************************************
Program Association Table
{
PAT Version Number: 2
Transport Stream ID: 57344 (0xe000)
NIT: 554.0 MHz
PMT PID 16 (0x0010) - Network
PMT PID 801 (0x0321) - Program 506/57408 Test Channel 6
}
Program Map Table(s)
{
Network PMT Entry - carried on PID 16 (0x0010)
Program Number: 506/57408 Test Channel 6
Stream Type: 0x90 User Private PID 802 (0x0322)
Descriptor: Stream Indentifier Descriptor
01 .
Descriptor: Data Broadcast ID Descriptor
00 05 3a 01 ..:.
}
Network Information Table
{
Network Name: Crystal Palace B
Network ID: 12421 (0x3085)
Transport Stream ID: 57344 (0xe000)
Original Network ID: 9018 (0x233a)
DVB-T Frequency 554.000 MHz
Bandwidth: 8 MHz Constellation: 64-QAM
Hierarchy: non-hierarchical Guard Interval 1/32
Code Rate: 2/3
Current Network: True
Service List Descriptor
Service: 57408 (Test Channel 6) digital television service
Private Data Specifier: Independent Television Commission
Logical Channel Descriptor
Logical channel 506 = MPEG service 57408 (Test Channel 6)
}
Service Description Table
{
SDT Channel 57408
Service Name: Test Channel 6
Provider Name: NGW
Transport Stream ID: 57344 (0xe000) 554.0 MHz
Original Network ID: 9018 (0x233a)
}
Event Information Table{}
PID Usage Chart
0x0000 (0.071%) 0x0000 MPEG-2 Program Assocation Table
0x0010 (0.001%) 0x0010 DVB Network Information Table
0x0011 (0.007%) 0x0011 DVB Service Definition Table
0x0014 (0.001%) 0x0014 DVB Time Definition and Offset Tables
0x0321 (0.070%) 0x0321 MPEG-2 PMT for program 506/57408
0x0322 (4.770%) 0x0322 User Private for program 506/57408
0x1fff (95.079%) 0x1fff MPEG-2 NULL Packet
******************************************************************
The bitrate is ~ 10 Mb/s